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ATHEAN O. ALLYN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FLEXIBLE CARRIER FOR ADVERTISING OR OTHER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,770, dated January 28, 1896.

Application filed May 20, 1895. Serial No. 549,884. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ATHEAN O. ALLYN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of lliassachuset-ts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flexible Carriers for Advertising or other Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to advertising apparatus in which a series of signs are mounted on a flexible carrier, the ends of which are connected with rollers which are operated to wind the carrier first onto one roller and then onto the other, the portion of the carrier between the rolls being displayed.

An apparatus of this class is shown in Letters Patent of the United States No. 525, 176, granted to me August 28, 1894.

The invention has for its object to enable signs or other advertising matter to be detachably secured to the carrier so that they can be readily removed and others applied, the construction of the carrier with the signs upon it being such that the signs will always remain in a practically smooth and even condition.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe andclaim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a portion of my improved carrier, the signs being removed therefrom. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of a portion of the carrier and portions of two signs applied thereto. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the parts shown in Fig. 1, showing the flap that covers the space between two signs in the position itoccupies before being secured at its front edge. Fig. 4 represents a rear view of a portion of the carrier, showing the free edge of the flap secured.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I make a flexible carrier of any desired length by assembling a series of longitudinal strips 04 a a a, said strips being preferably of flexible sheet metal, such as brass, and a series of transverse stripsb b b b riveted or'otherwise secured to the longitudinal strips a a, the whole forming a reticulated band or apron which is adapted to be attached at its ends to rollers and wound and unwound therefrom like the cloth apron or carrier shown in my above mentioned patent. The transverse strips 1) are located at such distances apart as may be appropriated to the different advertising spaces, and are provided with orifices b to receive the lacin g-cords hereinafter described.

0 0 represent flexible sheets of canvas or other suitable material upon which is painted or otherwise inscribed the advertising or other matter to be displayed.

For the sake of convenience I will call the sheets 0 c signs. Each sign is of sufficient size to practically cover the space on the carrier between two strips b, the signs being made somewhat shorter than the distance between said strips, so that spaces will be left between the ends of the signs and the edges of the strips 1), as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, to provide for extension or expansion of the signs. The signs are provided near their ends with eyelet-holes c.

d d represent elastic lacing-cords, which are passed through the orifices b in the strips b and the eyelet-holes c in the signs 0, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, said cords constituting elastic connections between the signs and the strips 1) and permitting such variation in the position of the signs as may be required by the varying diameters of the rolls upon which the carrier and signs are wound, thus preventing any straining or wrinkling of the signs and insuring the maintenance of the exposed signs in a fiat and smooth condition.

To one edge of each sign is attached a fiap c of sufficient width to extend across the space between each sign and the next, covering the perforated strip I). Said flap has at its free edge a series of elastic loops 0 which are formed to pass through the orifices c of the adjacent sign and be engaged at the back of said sign by a transverse lacing-cord c, as

shown in Fig. 4., a flexible connection being thus established between the sign and the flap with which the loops are engaged. The signs and flaps arranged as described constitute a practically continuous surface, concealing the carrier and presenting a neat appearance.

It will be seen that the described construction permits a ready removal of any sign and the substitution therefor of another, so that the advertising matter can be readily and conveniently changed from time to time.

1. A flexible sign-carrier composed of longitudinal flexible strips, and transverse strips secured to and crossing said longitudinal strips, some of said transverse strips having perforations to receive lacing-cords, the said perforated strips being separated from each other by intermediate sign-receiving spaces across which the other strips extend.

2. A flexible sign-carrier composed of longitudinal flexible strips and transverse strips secured to and crossing said longitudinal strips, some of said transverse strips having perforations to receive lacingcords,combined with a series of flexible sheets having eyeletholes at their ends and elastic lacing-cords connecting said sheets with the perforated cross-pieces.

3. A flexible sign-carrier composed of 1011- secured to and crossing said longitudinal strips, some of said transverse strips having perforations to receive lacing'cordspombined with a series of flexible sheets having eyeletholes at their ends and elastic lacing-cords connecting said sheets with the perforated cross-pieces, each sheet having at one end a flap formed to extend across the space between it and the next sheet, said flap having loops at its free edge adapted to be engaged with the end of the next sheet.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 18th day of May, A. D. 1895.

ATHEAN C. ALLYN.

\Vitnesses:

A. D. HARRISON, RoLLIN ABELL. 

